| NOUN | animal | reduviid, assassin bug | a true bug |
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| Meaning | A true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals. | |
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| Synonym | assassin bug | |
| Member of | Reduviidae, family Reduviidae | assassin bugs |
| Narrower | conenose, cone-nosed bug, conenose bug, big bedbug, kissing bug | large bloodsucking bug / bug |
| wheel bug, Arilus cristatus | large predatory North American bug that sucks the blood of other insects | |
| Broader | heteropterous insect | true bugs |
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